trending towards significanceP = 0.07
In two scans of patients with PVE, the SUVs were comparatively low, probably due to effective antibiotic therapy at the time of imaging (based on normalized laboratory parameters and abated symptoms); when these scans were excluded from the analysis, standard SUVmax differed significantly ( P = 0.02), while the difference in late SUVmax was still only trending towards significance ( P = 0.07).